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• Shield shapeHeaterThe usual knightly shield of the 13th and 14th centuries. The shape shows period and fashion, not a symbol.
• ColourVertHope, joy and youth: the green of spring and the fields.
• ColourArgentPeace and sincerity: the silver of purity.
• DivisionPer paleSplit down the middle: two parts side by side, a balance or a joining.
• ChargeStag’s head · OrThe pursuit of what is good: the stag that showed Saint Hubert the cross, and the hunt.

These meanings are a later tradition. Medieval heralds mostly chose a charge for how it looked, or as a pun on the family's name.

The number of figures, where they stand and which way they face are choices of design, with no fixed meaning.